If they are going to offer free wifi with out restrictions I don't see this lasting long. People will abuse it either by sitting there all day taking up a table while a family of four that just paid around 30.00 and can't find a place to sit or the person that does want to get on the net can't get good speeds because there are so many people in the neighborhood hogging the bandwidth. The first time I have to look for a place to sit and see a bunch of single people with laptops taking up a tables sitting there with only a cup of coffee, I will go back and request a refund. As for the people who won't eat McD's greasy burgers....well aren't you special...thanks for sharing.

It's a "Seinfeld" reference. i don't remember the name of the specific episode. lame joke on my part...nevermind.

@ruby I find that the salted meats satisfy when I get excited and hungry...wait, what was the original post about? Nevermind.

Under the assumption that the party sending out the letters is doing the due diligence thing, they'd connect to the IP claiming to seed and ask it for a chunk of the torrented bit sequence. If the client doesn't get one, there's no infringement going no.

If they do get one then either they themselves are a "pirate" or they are data they are entitled receive thus there can be no infringement. There's also the issue of how possible it is to reconstruct a file from a random file fragment.

Now, we can discuss whether the due diligence assumption is realistic, of course, but if I were them and I was genuine about preventing piracy (as opposed to going scaremongering), that's what I'd do. (fwiw...)

Really what they'd need to do would be leech the whole file, taking note of where they got each bit from, then have person look at what they had downloaded.

"The claim is "10x more productive""

Yes that is ALSO a claim. And it is ALSO a lie. Although not as easy to refute by simply demonstrating more concise code in just about any other language.

From the runrev.com website:

"Rev is easy to learn and use, requires 90% less code, and can deliver a 10-fold increase in productivity over traditional languages."

http://www.runrev.com/company/about-us/

All said it is probably a fine language for some. Its creator just has a lot of bad karma by marketing it with lies.

Or how China is keeping its currency at an artificially low price by purchasing huge amounts of the currency of its largest customer ;)

I understand that, which is why I said the same thing in my third sentence... I was simply trying to illustrate the fact that you cannot simply discount reflected light as "not being a light source." To do so ignores the nature of light. What one has to take into account, rather than the source of original illumination, is the strength of the light that's actually hitting your retina.

AGW deniers: data from their own thermometer is extrapolated into the trend "that it isn't getting any warmer".

Next: Castrate all men. To remove their “facility” to rape women.

(Oh boy, I know that there are “battle tank butch” lesbians out there, who think I’m completely serious. ^^)

Not to mention that "The Matrix" human batteries would run afoul of the laws of thermodynamics - you simply could not make a human being generate more electrical energy than it takes to keep them alive.

...Reading and watching video in the dark.

If you want, for a small fee, I will come to your house and rip out the cables out of all of your earphones, speakers, phones and other devices that blare the sound into your ears.
I'll break your TVs and monitors for free, but ripping out LEDs and light-bulbs will cost you extra.
You know... for that complete passive experience you are obviously aiming for.

Can't do much about the smells, touch and taste without removing your tongue, nose and skin though.
But for a price, I know a guy who does that too.

If that is supposed to look like english, then I have to go back to school.

Nobody talks like that, and I dare bet the syntax is as unforgiving as, say, BASIC. making it no easier in any way.

If they really want a language that reads like english, it should be able to parse something like this:

Do the following times the number of words in tAnswer, starting from 1. And put the number in x.
      Total all the number of characters from all those words into sAnswerCharacters.
      Repeat for every character in each of those words and give y a number starting from 1 for each character.
            Make the text of tButtonName start with "letter", then the value of x and then y at the end.
            Put "underline" into tUnderlineName and then also add x and y.
            Set the character into tCharacter.
            Make tImageName the character we just moved and finish it off with "Icon".
            (etc...)

@ajiiisows,

That's me too. I have two friends and we are constantly trading services. it's great. good ole fashioned cashless bartering system.